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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>Curious: if anyone thinks it is bad for Google to give the police information, do you think it's bad for Google to have the information in the first place? Yes. Having such comprehensive information stored in centralized databases
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>But since the database engine touches every record in the database it "logically" follows that everybody was searched... Not sure why "logically" is in quotes, because it is both technically and logically true that
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>If it's indeed a byproduct, it follows that the amount of culture generated is directly proportional to the bandwidth/speed of that communication. I agree that the mediums of communication of a society have a significant effec
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>"Bombarding people with information that challenges their cherished beliefs — the usual strategy that people employ in attempts at persuasion - is more likely to engender defensive avoidance than receptive processing. ^The great fa
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>So, if ISPs finally succeed in causing our internet to no longer be neutral, how will we be moving around that bug? It wouldnt be easy, but mesh networks are the best option I'm aware of.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>When you let people give you things for free, you basically let them control you and take away your freedom. How is this different from proprietary software? Where you have no idea what's going on under the hood? Granted, "giv
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Ask HN: What will be the short/long term fallout of the recent CIA leaks?
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Exactly. Your neighbor doesn't need to report on you, because you do it yourself with the bug in your pocket that records every word you say and every move you make.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Are seeds not a fundamental requirement to agricultural production?
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
That's true. Agricultural production is mostly centralized (i.e. Monsanto's mono poly). Just because a lot of people consume food doesn't change that. One of the earliest centralized societies (cities) was Sumer, where we al
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
No, I think you may have mistaken which comment was the parent to my comment. Straw man: >irrefutable proof of an organized conspiracy to go all "1984" on the internet? Real life isn't a movie.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Ad hominem and straw man attacks are very weak forms of counterargument.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>Books are centralised... how? When a book is published, it is one source producing static information for many readers. One to many. Producer -> Consumer(s). To create a book before the internet you had to be in the central location
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Redesign the monetary system from the ground up with modern goals in mind , as opposed to the legacy goals stated in the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. As it stands, 2 of the 3 explicitly stated goals of the Federal Reserve system are: 1. achie
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
I hate Facebook, but being hasty to place blame and responsibility on them after a suicide short sighted. Unless it was related to the emotional manipulation experiment they did a while back. https://www.forbes.com/sites&#x2
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>Although global warming is often talked about in "bad for the Earth" terms, really, the Earth will be just fine In the wise words of George Carlin: >The planet is fine . The people are fucked!
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Petroleum is a multi hundred billion dollar industry in the US alone. Attempting to vote our way out of this problem is in vain when considering the influence/ownership of the oil lobby on the political system.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Is the government the ultimate arbiter of science? Is it not possible to have access to medicines and have relevant scientific information without being subjugated by bureaucratic proxies for big pharma[1]? >People, often children with
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>It's not quite episitocracy if the same standard isn't being applied to the entire population. What about the people who get to determine what the test questions are? Are they not by default held at a higher standard than the
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>many people don't have the required IQ to participate in their own governance, as such maybe it's time to prevent them from doing so Subjugate: to make someone or something subordinate. Does your statement not fit the definiti
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>A student once asked his teacher, "Master, what is enlightenment?" The master replied, "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep." -Old Zen Tale
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>too many people don't have the required IQ to participate in their own governance, as such maybe it's time to prevent them from doing so ^The mantra of every authoritarian dictatorship. If the people lack the information to ma
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>This is a complex questions and there are no easy answers. What precisely is the question?
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Introducing TaaS: Truth as a Service. Brought to you by your omniscient Corporate Overlords. Because you're not smart enough to find the Truth for yourself!
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Look at the FOSS community, they're already doing it. The biggest barriers to scaling up are not technical but social (i.e. IP laws, legacy spaghetti tax and trade codes, prejudices).
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
See also[1]. >the Senate committee decided early on not to pursue the President, not only because he was too old and lacked the mental ability to fully understand what happened, and had too little time left in office, but because the Sen
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>How will you defend the company, who will speak for it The communications department, perhaps. >who takes the personal hit that eventually comes? The person responsible, as it should be.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
That graph is more informative. In terms of absolute numbers, extreme poverty has decreased by about 30% since 1820. I tried finding a similar graph/data set in regard to "regular" poverty (rather than "extreme") bu
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Percentages can be highly misleading because they abstract from the hard reality of absolute numbers. This is especially true when considering the exponential nature of population growth. The cited percentage change would be far more encour

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